PROTESTS IN TURKEY: A LAWYER’S EXPERIENCE.

After 17 days, four deaths, hundreds injured and arrested, and meeting two different groups of people Erdogan finally said that he would respect the decision of the Administrative Court, and no work would be carried out until the court reached its final decision.

The blind eye to Gezi Park legal proceedings is only one example of Erdogan’s “rule of law”. Constitutional amendments on 12 September 2010 provided him with the tools to redesign the judiciary and the legal system and having achieved this, he is now simply uncontrollable. If a court’s decision is not what Erdogan or his clan wants then the judges sitting to hear that particular case are replaced by those who will have the decisions the prime minister wants.

Luckily nothing like that could ever happen here.